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by Marshall to the second or third century A.D. The name Sivamegha (or Śivamagha ) reminds us of the ‘Meghas' (Maghas) who ruled in Kosalâ in the third century A.D. Another king, - Mahārāja Gautamiputra Vrishadhvaja, is assigned to a third or fourth century A.D.
One of the most memorable acts of Chandra Gupta I was the selection, before the assembled councillors (Sabhyas) and princes of the blood, of Samudra Gupta as his successor.
1 JRAS, 1911, 132; Pargiter, DKA, p. 51 ; see also a note on the Kosam Stone Inscription of Mahārāja Bhimavarman, by Mr. A. Ghosh in Indian Culture, III, 1936, 177, ff; see also I. c., 1. 694, 715,
